As chosen by critics AND fans
In my last story, I compared critics’ and fans’ top twenty films of all time. For the critics, I used my reweighted Rotten Tomatoes top 100. For the fans, I used IMDB’s top-rated movies of all time.
There was only one film in common between the two top twenty lists — Seven Samurai (1956). So I was expecting to find about five films in common between the two top 100s.
It turns out that critics and fans have a lot more in common — sixteen movies to be precise. Here they are in chronological order.
That’s a pretty interesting group of films by any standard! Even a couple that I haven’t seen (yet). There are a few unexpected observations:
- The dominance of the 1950s with six films (over a third of the list). This is even more significant given the tendency of both source lists to skew heavily toward more recent films (although for different reasons).
- The prominence of Hitchcock — four films (Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho) made over only five years(!).
- Were the 1980s and 1990s really a low spot? These were the only decades not…
